Grade Range: K-12Resource Type(s): Reference Materials, Lessons & ActivitiesDate Posted: 1/25/2010
This webiste, from the Lemelson Center’s Spark!Lab, uses fun activities to help kids and families learn about the history and process of invention. Students can play games, conduct science experiments, explore inventors’ notebooks, and even invent! Spark!Lab, the newest hands on space for families and others visiting the National Museum of American History, shows the real story behind an inventor’s work.
Multimedia instruction, Museum education
This telegraph register, manufactured in accord with the Morse patent, was installed in 1848 in S...
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The story of a young boy's persistence in creating his own toy vehicle, or galimoto.
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